Tag: Joseph Fiennes
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Under the Eye: “Ballet”
“Atrocities become minor anecdotes or isolated incidents in the cultural sieve, and it becomes easier and easier to forget that yes, even in 2022, a woman lives on borrowed time in backward cultures. She may be the most powerful voting block in the West, but she is valueless in places that are not ‘exceptional.'”
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Under the Eye: “Morning”
“The fifth season of The Handmaid’s Tale begins with the deck stacked against it. Be prepared for more ridiculous soap opera stories, more psychotic Kubrickian gazes into nothingness, and more inappropriate needle drops.”
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Under the Eye: “Mayday”
Even in the best of times, we turn on each other. This is what we were born to do. We should always try to seek out the best of us, but we should remember there are snakes in the garden. The trouble is the snakes don’t always identify themselves. It would be easier if they…
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Under the Eye: “Sacrifice”
I knew June was laughing. Maybe it was on the inside at first. June (Elisabeth Moss) is laughing because Gilead was so distracted with the arrest of Fred and Serena that Commander Refrigerator Humper’s (Christopher Meloni) “disappearance” was put on the back-burner. I laughed with June when I realized that Gilead is not America, and…
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Under the Eye: “Liars”
For me, as a writer, good writing must make sense. It’s the Cardinal rule of fiction. There has to be some sense to a story, even on an internal level like say space aliens. Space aliens have to have rules, and those rules can’t be broken. They can be bent, but they can’t be broken.…
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Under the Eye: “Witness”
Weird that we’ve come this far: As is par for the course, Atwood is being cancelled. At least from current thinking. On with the show! It is a dark sea of the unwashed standing before the altar of conformity. The camera stalks rows of shaved heads as they march to pews to watch the ominous…
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Under the Eye: “Heroic”
“It’s a God-awful small affairTo the girl with the mousy hairBut her mummy is yelling, “No!”And her daddy has told her to goBut her friend is nowhere to be seenNow she walks through her sunken dreamTo the seat with the clearest viewAnd she’s hooked to the silver screenBut the film is a saddening boreFor she’s…
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Under the Eye: “Under His Eye”
“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction — its essence — has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.” ― Isaac Asimov Everything engenders discussion, debate, and bitter argument these days. I…
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Under the Eye: “Useful”
Here’s the thing about dead bodies hanging in a town circle. It’s not a good look for any community. That’s the last thing you want to put in your tourist brochures. Ladies, back me up on this. As we often open an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale on a cheery note, we have June, Ofwarren,…
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Under the Eye: “The Word”
Say the word and you’ll be free Say the word and be like me Say the word I’m thinking of Have you heard the word is love? It’s so fine, it’s sunshine It’s the word, love In the beginning I misunderstood But now I’ve got it, the word is good Martha Rita didn’t have a…
Misadventures in Blissville 